Just a little fact about the Tucker engine you may not know

[Tuckeroo]

Excellent history can be found here (don't know if we posted it already but it links back to us). Details all of the Franklin O-335 models (there were many, in production for many years - through the 1970s, including turbocharged and fuel injected models with up to 260HP). Also the fact that Franklin was still under the Tucker Corporation as of 1961 (by which time of course, Preston Tucker had passed away and I assume the Tucker Corporation had been in liquidation for a number of years). Other interesting items in the article (though it makes no mention of the above link which shows the current active status of Franklin Motors) is the Waterman Aeromobile that wound up with a Tucker engine (mentioned in a previous post) and Franklin's (post-Tucker) ownership by Audi S.A. of Brazil.

http://home.adelphia.net/~aeroengine/Franklin1.html
Page 2 has the tables including the O-335:

http://home.adelphia.net/~aeroengine/Franklin2.html

Though they appear uncertain as to whether the 6V4-178 or 6V4-200 or both were used as the basis of the Tucker engine, I would assume it was the 6V4-178 given the horsepower ratings (166HP in the Tucker car, 178HP and 200HP for the respectively designated engines).

Though one or more of the Franklin O-335 models formed the basis of the Tucker engine, I'm told that there is not much which is interchangeable between the two (though many of the "essentials" are), especially considering the layout, application, and cooling system alterations that were made. One of the most interesting items in the Cammack collection is the one-and-only 335 that was designed and built for use in the Tucker
and air-cooled, which I believe Mr. Cammack acquired just as the Syracuse plant was closing down. Corroboration that this was the intended purpose of this engine comes from The Indomitable Tin Goose, with John L. Burns, chief experimental engineer of Aircooled Motors quoted. According to Burns, along with being air-cooled, the engine featured a blower, although this is not present on the engine today. Mr. Cammack informed me he was not aware that one had ever been there when he purchased it, but that it was missing its carburetter (and therefore had a blower been attached it would no longer be), and that the engine had apparently been tested to the burn-out point. Burns indicated that the engine had at least 200HP and would have been installed into a green Tucker (serial number, anyone?) but the court-appointed trustees took over just before that was accomplished. But since many of us like to speculate on what might have been, would anyone care to imagine a completely stock Tucker factory-special at Barrett-Jackson?